Physician&#39;s case.



'PATENTBD MAYIzs, 1908.

P. RULHLMANN' PHYSIOIAN'S CASE.. APPLICATION FILED AUG 31 1907 UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEroE.

PHILIPP RUEHLMANN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO MARIE RUEHL- MANN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PHYSIGIANS CASE.

Specification o f Letters Patent.

Patented May 26, 1908.

Application :filed August 31, 1907. Serial No. 390,868.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIPP RUEHLMANN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Physicians Case, of which the following is a specification.

The purpose of my invention is to supply a vial case for physicians7 use made in compact form, free from danger of upsetting the vials, and having an angular attachment of the vials and their mounts to the extending means.

A further purpose of my invention is to secure .mounts of the vials to a lazy tongs extension mechanism in4 such manner that the successive mounts shall form a support for the extended tongs.

A further purpose of my invention is to use an extension for a plurality of vial supports or mounts in connection with a side opening vial case so constructed and arranged that the extending means is supported from the bottom or side opening member of the case by means of the vial mounts.

For the purpose of illustrating my invention, I have shown the forms thereof at present preferred by me, since these embodiments best illustrate the principle of the4 invention and give satisfactory and reliable results in practice, although it is to be understood that the various instrumentalities of which my invention consists can be variously arranged and organized and that my invention is not limited to the precise arrangement and organization oiA these instrumentalities as herein shown.

Figure 1 represents in perspective a form involving my invention in extended position. Fig. 2 represents a transverse section through the end of a case involving my invention and in closed position. Fig. 3 represents in detailed section, a portion of myl extending means and bracket. Fig. 4 represents in section, a portion of a mechanism by which I attach my vial mounts to the extending mechanism.

Similar numerals of reference indicate cor- I responding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings :#1 designates a case having base 2 supported on any suitable rests 3, ends 4, tops 5 and sides 6 and 7, of which top 5 is hinged at 8 and side 7 is hinged at 9 in such manner that the top will lift upwardly and backwardly to the position will open to shown in Fig. 1, and the side 7 Against the the position also there shown. side 6, I preferably 10, by means of which I support a plurality of vials 11 in ixed position.

Within the ends 4, I mount, in any suitable manner, as by pivots 12, a pair of extension means 13, which in the present instance, I have Jformed as lazy tongs, comprising full arms 14, 14, and half arms 15, the half arms forming the extremities of the lazy tongs at both ends thereof and being pivoted at one end of each pair of lazy tongs upon pivot 12. The several other arms of the lazy tongs are pivoted at their centers at 16, except as to the Jfree end of the lazy tongs, whose half arms are pivoted at 17. the arms of the lazy tongs are pivoted in the usual manner at 18.

At the junction 16 ol' the arms of the lazy tongs and at the pivot 18, I fasten supports 19 having in the i'orm shown, extensions 19 securing the supports to the inside arms 14 thereof, these being arms which extend downwardly and outwardly in the position shown in Fig. 1, for the reason that this gives me an extended length of vattachment of the support along the arm since this arm and support are in my preferred construction nearly parallel. The supports 19 are intended for the mounting of clips 10. and vials 11 of the same character -as are mounted on the side 6 of my case. I

attach the supports to the arms 14 by means of brackets 20, best seen in Fig. 4. Each bracket comprises a strip 21 and right angular extension 22 of which the strip 21 is preferably much the longer and is attached to my support 19. The extension 22 is provided with apertures 25 for the rivets 24 for rigid attachment of the extension to the bracket and is apertured at 23 for passage of the pivots at 16.

It will be seen that the supports 19 will move with and lie nearly in the same plane as the corresponding arms 14 of the lazy tongs, and that the lazy tongs may be extended by pulling upon the tab 26 secured to the outside support 19, with the eect that the lazy tongs will be extended and the distance between the rows of vials 11 will be increased, giving opportunity to read the labels upon the vials and to remove the vials from the clips.

It will be seen that the vials are at no time The extremities of.

most desirably those secure a plurality of clips inclined more than the amount corresponding to the desired extension of the lazy tongs, Which amount may be limited in any desired or usual manner. It Will be further seen that the supports 19 depart but little from the perpendicular in their desired position, as shown in Fig. l, and that they extend below the lazy tongs, or may be made to so extend therebelow, With the result that they rest upon the extended side 7 or base 2 or both, and thus support the lazy tongs, as a Whole, in a nearly horizontal position.

It Will be seen that if shorter supports 19 be desirable or necessary, the lazy tongs thus Would find their support upon the bottom or extended side 7 of the box, and that the extent of corresponding drop of the end of the lazy tongs from the horizontal When the arms of the lazy tongs come in contact with the base or extended side depends only upon y the length of the arms of the lazy tongs (for any given extension) and the relative height of the pivots l2, With respect to such length.

It Will be evident that I may use the bands 27 instead of the clips 10 in the support of the vials or other matter placed upon the mounts.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is z* 1. In a device of the character described,

a case, a plurality of vial supports, lazy tongs pivoted in the ends of said case at a pivot point of the tongs, and means for rigidly securing the supports to parallel arms of the lazy tongs in proximity to the central pivot thereof.

2. In a device of the character described, a case having a swinging side, a plurality of lazy tongs pivoted in said case at a pivot point ofthe tongs, and a plurality of vial supports secured to parallel arms of said lazy tongs and extending beyond said arms to rest on the side When in extended position.

3.' In a device of the character described, a case having side and top openings, a plurality of lazy tongs pivoted therein, a plurality of vial supports rigidly secured to parallel arms of said lazy tongs and extended therebeloW to rest upon the side when extended.

4. In a device of the character described, a case having top and side openings, a plurality of lazy tongs pivoted in said case at a pivot point of the tongs, and a plurality of vial supports rigidly secured to parallelarms of said lazy tongs and in position nearly parallel to said arms.

PHILIPP RUEIILMANN. Witnesses:

W. S. JAoxsoN, C. D. MCVAY. 

